User Moderation Policy Explained

As a community we need to commit to self-moderate. Trolls and shitposters often take advantage of the free speech environment afforded by minimal moderation to brigade us with troll attempts and shitposts. Harassing with shitpost brigades was (and is) one of the techniques employed by SRS on that other site. Our policy is not to delete these posts or ban these users, so we need the rest of the users to use their votes. Trolls will get tired if the only response they receive in here is downvotes. So sort by "New" and downvote all the troll and shitpost threads, then sort by "Hot" to browse the sub. Important threads will always be stickied

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This sub is for documenting the attempts to drag Voat down into the mud by various censorship, advertising or shilling groups. One of our main goals is preventing the spread of PC-Driven Censorship to Voat. We watched self-righteous elitist powermods destroy the free speech environment that once existed on reddit. We will not allow that to happen to Voat.

The primary way to defend our free speech platform is to confront censorship when we see it.

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I am very skeptic of new people asking personal question and as such I am very skeptic of relativley yound accounts asking questions of; why voat, what makes you draw away from voat, why do you come back to voat.

Those were odd. There are many weird new tactics popping up this week, I think the new crew is in a different pay grade than the ctr trolls. The giant walls of distraction stories are interesting too, before they end up focusing on something completely retarded that means nothing.

Lets just hope that amalek pisses them off and gets taken offline, so we can be entertained by these new trolls with fresher material.

This amalek bullshit is just a rehash of the reddit unidan meme. Anyone remember that?

Here's my take on what is happening.

1) Enemy bot army (working title) is used to boost that meta post about fake news to the front page.

2) Voat now thinks the enemy has bots,

3) New users divine knowledge of a spammer that only posted a little bit on each account, months before their accounts were made. The man becomes a literal meme.

Side note: I have had at least one completely rational conversation with amalek, on one of his first dozen accounts. The original amalek would always reply to anyone who showed interest in his ideas, the alleged amaleks don't even bother. In fact, the new ones seem to take pleasure in harassing people, something the original jew-hating spammer never really did before.

4) Enemy bot army votes that meme-post about amalek's bot army to the front, effectively re-branding themselves.

5) New users are convinced there is an actual amalek with a bot army, and those bots are the sole reason they get downvotes. This hardens their resolve, all the while this bot army gives every new account free CCP to boost them past the limits. Notice those reallllly shitty comments with 3-4 upvotes in every thread? Might be humans, but I don;t personally think so.

6)All of the above further encourages the reddit-ification of the last refuge for free speech on the internet.

You can say its unlikely, and I won't blame you, but is textbook cointelpro tactics. The net result is a bunch of assholes (myself included) chasing bots that do exist, but witch-hunting fellow users while new reddit users move in and pull their coup.

Some of you might remember MH101. That was supposed to fill the role of amalek, but people started digging into the site, and they disappeared really fast. Amalek is the pivot. The nature of the witch-hunt never mattered, as long as witches were being hunted.

You can say its unlikely, and I won't blame you, but it is textbook cointelpro tactics. The net result is a bunch of assholes (myself included) chasing bots that do exist, but witch-hunting fellow users while new reddit users move in and pull their coup.

That is exactly what is going on. Except their first idiot started doing drugs with the new money and forgot the plan. These new imitators are exactly what you describe though, and this week's crew are obviously in a different pay grade altogether.

Just like you mentioned there is a coup, the new mod WECANHELP over at pizzagate just deleted my PSA on how to keep this creepy pizzagate shit from ruining your youtube profile. The excuse for deleting privacy suggestions was because it wasn't complicated security theater enough, and they wanted it buried in the sidebar notes. Wecanhelp deleted a PSA... That is a pretty blatant "we want you identified" move if I ever saw one.

You should post your explanation as its own post, it would make an interesting discussion when they arrive to debunk it.

There's a post in v/politics right now about Clinton's donors wanting to investigate where the money went. It's got well over a hundred upvotes and the comments are all in support...except the link goes to an article about the Canadian dollar.

That's what got me shadow banned from reddit, I called one of them out (it was pushing for an annual wealth tax, or maybe it was universal income).

I hope its not institutionalized here yet, but it certainly is on reddit. They strike deals with the mods of a popular sub to silence anyone who identifies the survey as being what it is, which keeps their experiment nice and clean variable-wise. Then the mods get their check in the mail. Market research does not get any more cost effective than on voat, 4chan, and reddit.